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Improvements A second independent pass through all New York Press issues between 1993 and 2001 is needed, possibly using a different collection other than the NYPL's stash of New York Press issues which are not entirely complete and improving the listings by including page numbers for all articles. Issue 12 of the Old Crow Review has to be found so that it can be determined if Monahan contributed any writing to issue 12? (see Talk:Old Crow Review for more info) Last updated by BillDeanCarter (talk) 20:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

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Contents 1 Total article tally 1.1 in Massachusetts (mainly around Amherst) 1.2 in New York City 1.3 in Hollywood 2 Quote 3 Inanities 4 Finding the book reviews 5 Mention the fracas at the launch party 6 Criticism of Light House

[edit] Total article tally

[edit] in Massachusetts (mainly around Amherst)

• Y Done Perkins Press 1 short story, possibly Monahan's first published story.
• Y Done Old Crow Review 9 contributions+1 pushcart prize-winner published in New York
• Massachusetts Review 0 contributions. ruled out.

[edit] in New York City

• Y Done New York Press many articles and listed in the article
• Y Done New York Post brief summary, just book reviews

LexisNexis's archives of the Post only go back so far, but it can be determined that Monahan's last book review there was January of 1998, and so the other book reviews are before that: narrowed to 1996-1997. The NYPL has copies on microfilm so a research of their archive would find the other book reviews.

• Y Done Maxim brief summary, not significant stuff

possibly the 2000 Women : Maxim's Unauthorized Guide by the Editors of Maxim may contain Maxim articles by Monahan.

and the 2001 Maximum Sex!.

• Y Done Spy magazine 4 issues according to Monahan, stated in The Boston Globe.
• Y Done Talk 1 article.
• Y Done Bookforum 3 book reviews
• The Paris Review 0 contributions. ruled out.

[edit] in Hollywood

• Y Done Variety 1 essay

sig BillDeanCarter 13:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quote

Here is the only quote from Monahan in Darcy Cosper's essay in the 2007 Novel & Short Story Writers Market guide.-BillDeanCarter 10:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

“	Novels are supposed to be entertainments worth your time and money. The artistry is extra, and if you have any, it takes care of itself. Art is involuntary; it has to do with what you are, and nothing to do with organized intention.	”
—William Monahan, quoted in the 2007 Novel & Short Story Writers Market by Lauren Mosko[1]

[edit] Inanities

• What's the name of the short story that won Monahan the Pushcart Prize?

Y Done

• What is the title of his article on heroin?

In the Old Crow Review simply Heroin. Possibly the same in the NYPress.

Y Done had a subtitle.

• What is the title and publication for his review of Oliver Stone's first novel?

Y Done went with a brief summary, instead of rifling through microform for weeks looking for all these reviews.

• • It was New York Post, and he wrote 4 or 5 reviews, but more definition remains elusive atm.
• What is the title of his travelogue on Gloucester, Massachusetts?-BillDeanCarter 07:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Y Done "So Seedy!" with a subtitle.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 13:58, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Finding the book reviews

Based on the idea that for every novel where Monahan is used as a blurb, there must be a book review associated to it, then sometime around 2001, when Superbad was first printed, is another article from Monahan hidden away.

• Superworse - The Novel /A Remix of Superbad: Stories and Pieces by Ben Greenman, Edited by Laurence Onge

  "Greenman has a wicked, mercurial intellect and a light touch, and he’s the genuine article. ‘Marlon Brando’s Dreaming’ alone is equal to the entire artistic output of a respectable civilization"—William Monahan, author of Light House

  [1]
• Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America By Lily Burana, also contains a blurb from Monahan from the hardcover edition published in 2001. [2]
• Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel, Tarcher/Putnam, hc, 235pp, $32.99 [3] with Monahan writing:

"Most writers survive circumstances that would have killed a lesser person, but Knipfel's survived things that would have destroyed a civilization. Blindness, poverty, idiot social workers and rage seizures aside, the worst of it was probably going to college in the '80s." If you're too young to know what it was like to be a young adult with a brain in the '80s, imagine this: you care about things, you want to be passionate about the world, but what lies ahead of you is a decade of Reaganomics, staggering social apathy and graduate schools that are churning out people who, to a lucid person, seem to be babbling nonsense. When they do make sense, what they seem to be saying is: "We've just figured out that our humanist society is just a big illusion, and there's not much that can be done about it. Those of you with an amazing talent for bullshit can compete like trained vicious weasels for a few tenured positions. The rest of you will be here teaching intro courses to mostly commerce students for shit pay. But there'll always be the wine and cheese parties."

Or maybe the blurbs were just that.

YES! They were just blurbs.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 20:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mention the fracas at the launch party

It is mentioned here in NYmag how at the launch party for Light House at the Carnegie Club in New York City Jim Knipfel got into a fight with an interloper. Knipfel even wrote about the event in an article of his own called "Bill, Book, and Strangulation". Since this was the launch party of Light House and was reported by press it will have to be added into Publication history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillDeanCarter (talk • contribs) 19:03, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

DID MENTION, now don't. Excessive detail. Amusing, but excessive.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 20:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Light House

Important articles:

• the Amazon.com editorial review by Claire Dederer
• New York Times review
• BookPage Fiction review
• The Hartford Courant reviews
• All the reviews mentioned in the Claude La Badarian serial should be considered for the Reception section. They are: The Boston Globe, ______, and _______.
• The Boston Herald To the `Lighthouse' for fun - Debut novel a droll delight,Author: Alfred Alcorn, Jul 16, 2000.

Ynn, BillDeanCarter 15:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• Also note that the story of Tim Picasso (Light house), according to the LATimes, was modeled after the life of Thomas Love Peacock. Just Like the story of Claude La Badarian was modeled after the life of Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor.-BillDeanCarter 18:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

COMPLETELY, SATISFACTORILY summarized.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 20:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)